Holy War in Ancient Israel (Paperback)

~ Mr. Gerhard Von Rad (Author), Mr. John H. Yoder (Translator), Mrs. Marva J Dawn (Translator)

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From the earliest days of Israel's existence as a people, holy war was a sacred institution, undertaken as a cultic act of a religious community. The concept of holy war, an intriguing and sometimes disturbing theme in the Old Testament, is given its most articulate expression in this classic study by the distinguished German scholar Gerhard von Rad. For Israel, the most important feature of holy war was the demand for faith in Yahweh's saving acts. However, von Rad argues, it was not Yahweh alone who acted; rather, because they envisioned Yahweh fighting on their behalf the Israelites themselves were inspired - and obliged - to fight even harder. In this regard, the actual events differed vastly from the picture given by the biblical narratives, which downplay and often exclude the human factor and stress the exclusive warlike action of Yahweh, thus equating holy war with absolute miracle.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible

(And Why We Don't Know About Them)

~ Bart D. Ehrman

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“Ehrman’s ability to translate scholarship for a popular audience has made the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill a superstar in the publishing world” (IndyWeek )

“For both scholars and the masses who read about religion, Bart D. Ehrman needs no introduction . . . He adds the personal to the scholarly for some of his works, detailing how he went from a Moody Bible Institute-educated fundamentalist evangelical to an agnostic . (Durham Herald-Sun )

“There’s something delicious (for nonbelievers, anyway) about the implacable, dispassionate way that Ehrman reveals how the supposedly “divine truth” of Christianity was historically constructed.” (Salon.com )

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Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—and it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:

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The author presents a behind the scenes look at the secretive international policies of the British government and how their successes allowed them to rise to the top of a vast secret order of World Finance. According to the author, he has pieced enough information together, presented in this book, which clearly shows that a colossal financial and political organization is run from a area of London called "The City". Due to its power, The City is claimed to operate as a super-government of the world, and plays some kind of role or has influence in virtually every major world event.

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It was one of history's most powerful -- yet forgotten -- Christmas stories. It took place in the improbable setting of the mud, cold rain and senseless killing of the trenches of World War I. It happened in spite of orders to the contrary by superiors; it happened in spite of language barriers. And it still stands as the only time in history that peace spontaneously arose from the lower ranks in a major conflict, bubbling up to the officers and temporarily turning sworn enemies into friends.
Silent Night, by renowned military historian Stanley Weintraub, magically restores the 1914 Christmas Truce to history. It had been lost in the tide of horror that filled the battlefields of Europe for months and years afterward. Yet in December 1914 the Great War was still young, and the men who suddenly threw down their arms and came together across the front lines -- to sing carols, exchange gifts and letters, eat and drink and even play friendly games of soccer -- naively hoped that the war would be short-lived, and that they were fraternizing with future friends.
It began when German soldiers lit candles on small Christmas trees, and British, French, Belgian and German troops serenaded each other on Christmas Eve. Soon they were gathering and burying the dead, in an age-old custom of truces. But as the power of Christmas grew among them, they broke bread, exchanged addresses and letters and expressed deep admiration for one another. When angry superiors ordered them to recommence the shooting, many men aimed harmlessly high overhead...

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“One of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.”—Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine
Half the world is malnourished, the other half obese—both symptoms of the corporate food monopoly. To show how a few powerful distributors control the health of the entire world, Raj Patel conducts a global investigation, traveling from the “green deserts” of Brazil and protester-packed streets of South Korea to bankrupt Ugandan coffee farms and barren fields of India. What he uncovers is shocking—the real reasons for famine in Asia and Africa, an epidemic of farmer suicides, and the false choices and conveniences in supermarkets. Yet he also finds hope—in international resistance movements working to create a more democratic, sustainable, and joyful food system.
From seed to store to plate, Stuffed and Starved explains the steps to regain control of the global food economy, stop the exploitation of farmers and consumers, and rebalance global sustenance.

"Since their beginning, the people of God have stressed the importance of understanding their uniqueness, of knowing from whom they have move ..."

This excellent, Scripturally based study is written with compassion and authority and reveals how the roots of Christianity run deep into "Hebrew soil", showing the Hebrew heritage of the Christian Church....

Through a Biblical, historical and cultural study, the book examines what our "predecessors" in the Judeo-Christian faith have delivered to the Church of today. The opening chapters of this work provide a historical perspective on the Jewish origin of the Church with the book going to great lengths to emphasise the fundamental truths that "Jesus Christ Himself was a Jew" and that the Bible declares "Salvation is of the Jews" (John 4;24).

This is an extremely comprehensive, readable and informative study on the Jewish roots of Christianity to which the latter is permanently indebted & a "must read" for anyone wishing to obtain a Hebraic perspective on the New Testament. For those interested in this subject I would also respectfully recommend "Jewish Roots; A Foundation Of Biblical Theology" by Dan Juster.

by Noam Chomsky

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Drawn from a series of public talks given during the Spring of 2002, as well as a lengthy, never-before-published interview, Power And Terror presents Chomsky's latest thinking on terrorism, U.S. foreign policy, and alternatives to militarism and violence as solutions to the world's problems. Challenging the United States to apply the moral standards it demands of others to its own actions, this refreshingly optimistic treatise on the state of the world offers a conclusion rooted in Chomsky's faith in the power of an informed public.

Larry Burkett

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Burkett speaks candidly on the state of the economy, how inflation affects individuals, and what can be done, personally and politically, to correct the current economic crisis.

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The Coming Earthquake  By: Louis Bock
It is amazing this book was written 15 years ago, and was premature in the authors projection for the future. Now 15 years latere we are recogonizing the exact conditions that he wrote about and have to accept the downfall of our financial and political system. This is a spiritual More...
and prophetic book that will give an insight into what our world has become, and what is yet to come. Scary reading, but sometimes reality will do that to you.

Weather Warfare: Military's Plan to Draft Mother Nature [Paperback] Jerry E. Smith (Author)

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Mother nature has been drafted! Floods, Droughts, Tsunamis, Hurricanes & Volcanic Eruptions - Weapons of the Future - or Today? Weather modification in the form of cloud seeding to increase snow packs in the Sierras or hail suppression over Kansas is now an everyday affair. Underground nuclear tests in Nevada have set off earthquakes. A Russian company has been offering to sell typhoons (hurricanes) on demand since the 1990s, and scientists have been searching for ways to move hurricanes for over fifty years. In the same amount of time we went from the Wright Brothers to Neil Armstrong, hundreds of environmental and weather modifying technologies have been patented in the US alone and hundreds more are being developed in civilian, academic, military and quasi-military laboratories around the world at this moment. This book lays bare the grim facts of who is doing it and why. The book updates recent developments at HAARP, including its possible connection to the crash of the Space Shuttle Columbia. Did HAARP play a role in Hurricane Katrina? Smith puts these technologies into context by examining the geopolitical conflicts that are driving their development from globalisation and the rise of Neo-Con Neo-Fascism to terrorism and 'Peak Oil'.

 

Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda [Paperback] Noam Chomsky (Author)

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Noam Chomsky’s backpocket classic on wartime propaganda and opinion control begins by asserting two models of democracy—one in which the public actively participates, and one in which the public is manipulated and controlled. According to Chomsky, "propaganda is to democracy as the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state," and the mass media is the primary vehicle for delivering propaganda in the United States. From an examination of how Woodrow Wilson’s Creel Commission "succeeded, within six months, in turning a pacifist population into a hysterical, war-mongering population," to Bush Sr.'s war on Iraq, Chomsky examines how the mass media and public relations industries have been used as propaganda to generate public support for going to war. Chomsky further touches on how the modern public relations industry has been influenced by Walter Lippmann’s theory of "spectator democracy," in which the public is seen as a "bewildered herd" that needs to be directed, not empowered; and how the public relations industry in the United States focuses on "controlling the public mind," and not on informing it. Media Control is an invaluable primer on the secret workings of disinformation in democratic societies.

George S. Clason

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THE MOST AMAZING BOOK EVER!!!  By: R. Johnson
This little book is the most AMAZING book I've ever read about building personal wealth realistically.
I study it over and over and have probably read it over 10 times and each time I learn something new.
I have set my entire budget based on what I've learned in it. The More...
principles DO WORK if you follow them to the letter...:)
I give this book as Christmas gifts to my family and friends and would recommend it to any one with an open mind. .

The Richest Man in Babylon  By: R. S. MCCRITE
I have read many books on building wealth. I wish I would have read this book when I was 16. If I could have adopted the techniques in this book as a young man just starting my life in the working world, I would have been retired by now in my early 40's. There is no time like More...
the present to learn new wealth building techniques to commit to being wealthy in the near future.

 

This review is from: Preparing for the 21st Century (Paperback)

Its undoutedly the best book to read explaining the role of economy in the shaping of world events. It also predicts the rise of new powers in the world and the reason behind their rise and power.

The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy [Paperback]

John J Mearsheimer (Author), Stephen M Walt (Author)

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Does America’s pro-Israel lobby wield inappropriate control over US foreign policy?
This book has created a storm of controversy by bringing out into the open America’s relationship with the Israel lobby: a loose coalition of individuals and organizations that actively work to shape foreign policy in a way that is profoundly damaging both to the United States and Israel itself.
Israel is an important, valued American ally, yet Mearsheimer and Walt show that, by encouraging unconditional US financial and diplomatic support for Israel and promoting the use of its power to remake the Middle East, the lobby has jeopardized America’s and Israel’s long-term security and put other countries – including Britain – at risk.
From the Publisher
How a powerful American interest group has created havoc in the Middle East, betrayed Israel itself and now threatens an even more perilous future. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Dominic Sandbrook, Daily Telegraph
'A world of scholarly analysis, and it deserves to be taken seriously'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title
Tariq Ali
`The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy brings out into the open a subject hitherto taboo in the US'
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Max Hastings, Sunday Times
There will be no peace in the Middle East until the United States faces its responsibilities there in a much more convincingfashion than it does today
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Return of History and the End of Dreams

von Robert Kagan (Autor)

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"'In this important, timely, and superblywritten book, Robert Kagan shows that the "end of history" was an illusion. Today's global challenges pose a stern test for the world's democracies. This book is a wake-up call and should be read by policymakers, politicians, pundits and all who want a guide to the dangerous waters of 21st century geopolitics.' Senator John McCain 'Robert Kagan is the reigning pundit of great power politics.' TLS 'Subtle and deep' Economist 'A book demanding to be read' Independent 'Essential reading' Spectator 'Kagan does big-picture thinking in a way that eludes his British counterparts'. Observer"

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Hopes for a new peaceful international order after the end of the Cold War have been dashed by sobering realities. Great powers are once again competing for geopolitical influence. International competition between the United States, Russia, China, Europe, Japan, India, and Iran raises new threats of regional conflict. The expectation that after the Cold War the world had entered an era of international convergence has proved wrong. We have entered an age of divergence. In "The Return of History and the End of Dreams", Robert Kagan masterfully poses the questions facing the democratic world today. For the past few years, it has been internally divided and distracted by issues both profound and petty. But now History has returned, and the peoples of the liberal world need to choose whether they want to shape it - or let others shape it for them.

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism [Paperback]

Naomi Klein (Author)

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In this groundbreaking book, the bestselling author of No Logo exposes the gripping story of how America’s ‘free market’ policies have come to dominate the world – through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries. At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the ‘War on Terror’ to Halliburton and Blackwater. After a powerful tsunami devastates the coasts of Southeast Asia, the pristine beaches are auctioned off to tourist resorts. New Orleans’s residents, still scattered from Hurricane Katrina, discover that their public housing, hospitals and schools will never be reopened. These events are examples of what Naomi Klein calls ‘the shock doctrine’: the use of public disorientation following massive collective shocks – wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters – to push through unpopular economic measures often called ‘shock therapy’. Sometimes, when the first two shocks don’t succeed in wiping out all resistance, a third is employed: that of the electrode in the prison cell or of the Taser gun. Based on breakthrough historical research and four years of on-the-ground reporting in disaster zones, The Shock Doctrine explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Disaster capitalism – the rapid-fire corporate reengineering of societies that are reeling from shock – did not begin with September 11, 2001. Klein traces its intellectual origins back fifty years to the University of Chicago’s economics department under Milton Friedman, whose influence is still felt around the world. She draws new and surprising connections between economic policy, ‘shock and awe’ warfare and covert CIA-funded experiments in electroshock and sensory deprivation in the 1950s; research that helped write the torture manuals used today in Guantanamo Bay. As Klein shows how the deliberate use of the shock doctrine produced world-changing events from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989 and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, she tells a story radically different from the one usually heard. Once again Naomi Klein has written a book that will reframe the debate. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
John le Carré
`Impassioned, hugely informative, wonderfully controversial, and scary as hell' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Arundhati Roy
`a brilliant, brave and terrifying book...nothing less than the secret history of the `Free Market'... compulsory reading' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
John Berger
`Naomi Klein as a writer is an accusing angel...A book to be read everywhere.' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Searching for the Original Bible:

*Who Wrote It and Why? *Is It Reliable? *Has the Text Changed Over Time? (Paperback)

by Randall Price (Author)

Excellent resource. Randall Price makes a great case for the authenticity and reliability of the Biblical text.

Show Them No Mercy:

4 Views on God and Canaanite Genocide (Paperback)

~ Stanley N. Gundry (Series Editor), C. S. Cowles

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A Counterpoints book that discusses various contemporary views held by evangelicals on God’s command to the Israelites to destroy utterly the Canaanites and how each view sees the relationship between this God of the Israelites and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has commanded us to love our enemies.

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A discussion of various contemporary evangelical views of genocide in the Old Testament
Christians are often shocked to read that Yahweh, the God of the Israelites, commanded the total destruction—all men, women, and children—of the ethnic group know as the Canaanites. This seems to contradict Jesus’ command in the New Testament to love your enemies and do good to all people. How can Yahweh be the same God as the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ? What does genocide in the Bible have to do with the politics of the 21st century?
This book explores, in typical Counterpoints format, the Old Testament command of God to exterminate the Canaanite population and what that implies about continuity between the Old and New Testaments.
The four points of view presented on the continuity of the Testaments are: • Strong Discontinuity –C . S. Cowles • Moderate Discontinuity –Eugene H. Merrill • piritual Continuity –Tremper Longman III • Eschatological Continuity –Daniel L. Gard